Friday, 30 November 2007

I havent been working on Illustration very much recently, had quite a bit of Graphic Design stuff but its commercial or conceptual so I havent been able to blog it,

did a new piece for fun a while ago and havent got round to blogging it yet, I just got a new job with a fruit-themed computer company where I work 9-5 (!) so my time for freelancing is limited but Im still hoping to get some more commissions!

Sunday, 22 July 2007

I have not had much work on this last week so I got round to doing another Editorial. This one is for an article in the Financial Times's "How to Spend It" supplement about precision tuning for performance sports cars.Buying a Sports Car, especially a customized one is usually a method of defining identity amongst those who can afford them so I worked in some fingerprints into the design along with the billowing money and robot arms.

Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Had quite a lot of work on these last few weeks, phoning publications and doing a bit of freelance design work, so I have been a bit crap about doing any new editorial workI managed to get this done on sunday

The piece is based on something I saw in "Paul Merton in China" about an uneducated chinese farm labourer who inexplicably taught himself how to build robots out of everyday objects and trash... I saw him as person who could work out how things worked just by looking at them, almost like an exploded view of the world.

Thursday, 5 July 2007

I finished this piece the other day but im looking for work now so time is a bit constricted, the idea is about how china is dividing into a financial upperclass and underclass while still maintaining the pretense of communism.

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

This Illustration came about from reading about the violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia (funded by illegal diamond trafficking. I thought the phrase "Getting blood from a stone" was somehow appropriate to this continuing problem of weapons finding there way into the hands of child soldiers via illicit arms sales.

Sunday, 3 June 2007

I chose an article from a recent FT Magazine about the life of an FBI agent for my latest practice exercise. The agent specialized in recovering stolen art by going undercover so i played with concealing identity to represent him.

Inspired by Adams recent drawing post I decided to post some old drawing I did in my first year with Quink ink and instant coffee, the technique is a bit like watercolour but it smells weird (because of the coffee!)

Friday, 25 May 2007

This was the final project I did for my 3rd Year, I toyed with the idea of investigating journeys and travel but ended up working on the Ego project first.After finishing that I took a public brief on "home" for a local exhibiton.I examined many ideas of home and became fixated on a social commentary piece on the desolation of slum living and poverty in suburban london.

I also looked at the idea of "neighborhood watch" in a reversd way, with people watching each other inside the community ,rather than being wary of strangers.....

All this work was interesting but I needed something more personal, so I looked into my attitudes about home, I used to have a rather distorted life, somewhat like a person with two lives, one with my now ex-girlfirend In Totnes, Devon and the other in Banbury, studying for my degree, on top of that I lived in Buckinghamshire. Needless to say I travelled a lot and spent a large proportion of my time in non-places, train stations and roadsides, places that exist only in the transitory.

I sought out to illustrate how I felt about it and when I had designs for both placesi wrote my girlfriend a letter describing the work. This became these Final pieces:

Wednesday, 23 May 2007

I was asked (through Myspace)to do an illustration for Litmsuphere magazine in march this year, unfortunatley I was really busy with two other briefs for uni and couldn't apply all my time to it, I produced two bits of work for the deadline but remained unhappy with the final result, for my own piece of mind I created a new piece later whi ch i have posted here today. When I get my sketchbooks back from assessment I will post the sketches and submitted work.

Monday, 21 May 2007

I tried to design a character who i felt inspired feelings of hostility, the pink polo shirt suggesting a softness (in touch with his feminine side?!) countered by the hair and sneering face making him look like a cocky idiot.

Sunday, 20 May 2007

An enjoyable project based on the idea of "A Postcard from the Edge" I chose to look at mental illness through the "right brain" or creative side of the mind.I read Oliver Sacks book: "The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat" and used the narrative to create my designs around some of the bizarre case histories.

The final images are intended to portray the gulf between the mentally ill and the medical establishment, the intertwined trees representing autistic twins who communicate through numbers as similarly inseperable despite the intervention of the medical authority.

The other image look's at the overmedication of the mentally ill (somewhat clumsily)